Haha yeah, it surprised me too, as I usually break these every time I pull a motor.... It's like a curse.
To be fair though, the car only has 89K miles on it. Not a bad buy for $250 because it needed a "head gasket." Turns out someone snapped the intake mani bolt by the coolant passage. I pulled the motor, tore it down, cleaned it, (repeat that last step like 15 times), and am reassembling it now to put it back in.